Hello everyone! It’s only a fortnight away from Halloween, and I thought I’d get into the spirit of it all! I updated my profile pic on Facebook… with the above 
It’s Friday evening here, and I’m sure that everyone is as done with this week as I am. Put the work away, everyone, time to PARTY 
It’s been a long hard week for me. Today is the sixth anniversary of losing my Dad to melanoma – and it doesn’t seem like six years. Tomorrow would have been his birthday. I’ve had a few other anniversaries that bring a bit of sadness with them, too.
How do I cope? I find ways to distract myself, and hopefully make myself laugh! My friend Sooz of MundaneBrain jumped on the bandwagon too – check out her post for a list of links to some amazing sights. YES AMAZING. I promise. Like these:
Yes you CAN eat them! They are lollipops, from Etsy
And what about this?
This is a pencil case – but I would love to find it also in a handbag or purse form.
Because I’ve always wanted to walk down the street swinging my mackeral.
I think my friend Ange, who sadly doesn’t have a blog, would love this. It would be very fitting for her. She strives to become a member of the Stunned Mullet club. (Mullets are a kind of fish that look quite alike to the mackeral pencil case fish.)
“Stunned Mullet” is Aussie vernacular for surprise, bewilderment, utter incomprehension. You are said to look like a stunned mullet when you have no idea what someone is going on about! (source)
“Stunned Mullet” also describes the expression on the faces of a group of youthful Aussies when they hit the freeeeeezing cold water every single morning, rain, hail or shine! Have a look!
Hahaha how awesome is that? Thank you to Ange for bringing this amazing custom to my attention!
Okay, I am aware that the title of my post is Friday Night Frights rather than Friday Night Funnies, so I need to actually bring you the frights! Perhaps this post is like most horror movies I’ve watched – with the exception of one or two, I don’t seem to be scared by horror movies. Maybe I’m a cold fish?
Two that have scared me, have been Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds, and Arachnaphobia. The first leaves me terrified of any birds and expecting them to peck my eyes out or start pecking through my roof to hunt me down. (It’s also a comedy for me, due to the cliched poses of the actors and actresses!)
The other, Arachnaphobia, terrifies me in that way that thinking about spiders everywhere will! AAAaaargh! I’m actually more scared of snakes – borderline phobic – so I’ve not even tried to watch movies like Anaconda and Snakes on a Plane.
I subscribe to Disney Shorts on Youtube, and lately they’ve begun a really cool series of shorts about phobias – from Arachnaphobia (yikes!! Not for me!) to so far, Koniophobia. Whatever that is… (fear of dust!)
I thought I’d share my favourite with you 
You’re not scared now, are you? Naw…
Have a wonderful Friday, my friends
And let me know if you have ever seen a movie that really truly freaked you out!
Alfred Hitchcock’s “Psycho”!
I knew what was going on towards the end, but that didn’t stop me from freaking out completely, when the chair with the stuffed old lady was turned around. I know, it’s all black and white and not that scary, but I screamed as if someone wanted to murder me and started shivering violently…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1cFYctfO7s <- Guess you know this one already?
Too cute!
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I actually find black and white to be a lot more atmospheric
True. What I meant is, that the sight alone of that old woman shouldn’t be so scary. It’s the concept that’s scary and since I already knew what was coming, the sight of that old woman alone shouldn’t have fraeked me out as much as it did =)
My granddad and I used to watch it regularly together and it NEVER STOPPED FREAKING ME OUT!
Seriously, I love that film. My husband hates psychological stuff and all-out horrors though – he wouldn’t even watch The Shining with me
I really really want to be so freaked out that I’m shivering and screaming!! But then again.. maybe not.
I like psychological thrillers better… the ones that are just full on blood and gore get a bit old after a while, you become desensitised to the gore!
To me it’s only a horror if it’s psychological. The gore is just nasty and pointless because it takes away from the actual plot!
Yes, I find that the scariest things in LIFE aren’t usually those that seem outwardly the most shocking.
I would have enjoyed the Shining so much more had I known that whenever it looks like somethings going to happen, nothing actually does. Without that knowledge, I couldn’t let the atmosphere get to me because I wanted to avoid jumping out of my seat whenever something unexpected (or very much expected) pops up -.-
I don’t think I’ve even watched the Shining, but I’ve read it a few times, very very good book
YES I think the sight of the old woman would still have been frightening had it only been a bunch of sacks or a mannequin, it’s the concept.
Hm…I never read the book. Maybe I should?
Is it very terrifying?
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I think you should! It’s a classic Stephen King, one of his better ones IMO
And it’s probably even better if you don’t read Stephen King a lot – you know how sometimes when an author has a lot of books, they can tend to become a bit ‘formulaic’ so you can guess how it’s going to go? It’s not with all of his books, but sometimes yes. Dean Koontz, same problem.
Yes definitely!! I can’t get used to the ones that have been given colour later on though.
No, I always say to leave the original alone. I never watch remakes.
Yes true!
Oh yes, that’s got to go down in history as THE classic horror movie!! And that old lady! Yikes!! I have to admit, I always still get a bit bamboozled by the ending (I didn’t watch it for years up til recently so I forgot, I just remembered that it was ‘that one where she gets stabbed in the shower’.) It blows my mind that he thought he was? Pretended to be? his mother all that time! Another one where the ending REALLY got me was Sixth Sense, I didn’t see that one coming at all!
Perfect antidote to all the dark stuff hey? xxx
No, I had never seen that video, and THANK YOU because it is the SWEETEST thing ever! You totally made my evening and that of several friends on facebook who hadn’t seen it either
Oh I’m so glad you didn’t know it already. Really must be one of the cutest videos out there – everybody ought to watch it!!
I can’t even remember the ending of The Sixth Sense – weird…
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It really is!!
I don’t know if I should spoil the ending for you haha.. at least right now you could see it again and be shocked again! xx
True – guess I’ll have to watch it immediately if I tell my boyfriend that I can’t remember the ending =)
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haha!
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I tried to watch Arachnophobia once. NEVER AGAIN!!
Not much freaks me out, but Psycho, The Exorcist and Texas Chainsaw Massacre are pretty nasty.
There’s also that one starring Donald Sutherland, who is in Venice searching for his missing daughter. I can’t remember the name of it but… *shudder*
I just get so itchy after movies like Arachnaphobia, do you? When you start imagining that you can feel something crawling on you… same as I do when I walk through a spiders web by mistake!!!
I will have to look up that one about Donald Sutherland, I don’t think I’ve seen it either.
There is one that I can’t remember the name of that really scared me. I was a little kid when the family watched it on TV, so it must be very old. But I still remember it – it made that huge an impression on me. There is this family where one of the sisters is jealous of her sister, it starts off they go to see a relative, are driving home tired/late/ a bit drunk – and they crash. The jealous sister has tied her sister’s shoelaces together so she is slow to react, and slams the door in her face with the childlocking on. So the older sis can’t get out and the car explodes with her in it! eek. Then she slowly goes mad, seeing her sister’s ghost under the bed telling her to do things. She kills her little brother by enticing him onto the roof and then opening a high window on him so he falls off – after trying to squash him by making the top bunk bed fall down on him. She kills her grandmother (?) by scaring her to death with brother’s lizard. She kills her dad by throwing a hairdryer in the full bath with him… and then her mother,coming home from buying pizza realises it’s just herself and the little girl left and OMG the little girl is crazy and evil and has been killing them all!! Big chase ensues with the little girl coming after the mother with the pizza cutter… who falls down the stairs and breaks her arm. She wakes up in hospital and it seems she’s gotten away safe, but the movie ends with the mother seeing the ghost of the sister herself and screaming…
it was a full on wacko movie for sure :/
Eek, that sounds terrifying!
When I tried to watch Arachnophobia I started freaking out big time, crying and screaming and begging my partner to turn it off because I was too scared to get near the TV.
Yikes!!!
I think Arachnophobia had to have been one of the most scariest movies I’ve ever seen…I’m terrified, absolutely terrified, of SPIDERS. Not so much snakes, probably because I’ve not had anything much to do with them…
I haven’t seen Psycho, or TCM, but The Exorcist…oOOOH!!! Spooky freaky shit!!! aaaaaaaaaaarrrrrghh!
And don’t laugh…but I was also very freaked out by…wait for it…The Blair Witch Project. I said, don’t LAUGH!
Child’s Play (Chuckie) movies, who’s seen them? They were also a freaky favourite, i used to have nightmares about my dolls…
And I’m honoured to be personally featured in your blog, dearest sister!
Goodnight! Love you oxxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo
Ange
Haha dear sis, I’m glad you liked being part of my blog!
We have to get you a stunned mullet purse!!! This is where you buy it from
It really is interesting how it’s slithery or creepy crawly things that can make us have such strong reactions. I actually am sort of phobic to snakes – ‘sort of’ because for example, last week when there was a snake display in the shopping centre with OMG real live snakes, I was practically wetting myself but I didn’t run screaming or faint or anything, I did go up and look at them through the glass despite my terror. I’ve hated snakes because we grew up with a LOT of them, especially taipans – (and the taipan at that display was very aggressive too, trying to strike us through the glass and rearing up a metre off the floor!) and it was a taipan that killed my beloved first cat, Hotchy.
Those chucky movies… argh. Maybe I should take a couple of those out. I’ve never watched more than the beginning because I just can’t, they creep me out too much… LOL and I WANTED to be scared!
Exorcist creeps me out too, but more because I feel.. wrong watching it.
I’ve never seen Blair Witch Project!
Love you too
I haven’t watched any scary movies my entire life, except for those hilariously bad ones that are entirely predictable. I’m too scared to watch the actual good scary movies so I read the plot summary on Wikipedia which still freaks me out LOL. I am an orithnophobic so I’ve definitely stayed away from Hitchcock’s Birds!
Hi April! The birds was a really, really scary one so it’s a good thing you stayed away if you are phobic. How do you cope with that? Sometimes there are birds everywhere outside, here!
I actually prefer to read than to watch
OMG!
“Because I’ve always wanted to walk down the street swinging my mackeral.”
That made me laugh HYSTERICALLY. Thanks:)
LOLOL it made me laugh too
well the spider thing is scary! lol The movie “Children of the Corn” freaked me out as a kid and i have never watched another horror movie since.
We have to find you a mackeral purse! lol
I have heard of that! Another one for my horror bucket list!!
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I’m sure I’ll find a mackeral purse hehe
ya it’s awful! ahaha mackeral purse!!
Those lollipops are amazing! I wish they were available before next year I’d gift those for Christmas like crazy
I know, they are almost too pretty to eat, aren’t they!
Your father must be very proud of the person you’ve become…
I really hope he is, that means a lot to me – thank you.
Ooooooohhh I can’t watch horror movies! The pictures stick with me for months or even years, and watching them is physically painful for me. As a child already I was traumatized (getting panic attacks etc) after a few children’s movies I’ve seen (like, the “Neverending Story”, I was so scared by the wolf that tracks Atrejù!), so I better leave it.
Wow I loved the Neverending Story!! I found more sinister things traumatising – the suggestion of lurking malice for example. And I was TERRIFIED of the dark! I used to whine a lot at night because I was scared of the darkness around me and could see monsters everywhere!
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